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An Open Letter to the United States Senate

On behalf of the millions of members represented by the undersigned groups, we urge you to oppose S. 1776, the “Medicare Physician Fairness Act,” and its appalling and dishonest attempt to mask the tremendous costs health care reform will impose upon American families and businesses. Considering the enormity and complexity of our health care system, the American people deserve honesty and transparency in a reform debate. This kind of legislative scheming fails to live up to the high standards to which this Congress claims to aspire.

Introduced by Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), S. 1776 would raise reimbursements for physicians through Medicare to the tune of $247 billion over 10 years. While this so-called “doc fix” has merit under the right circumstances as a means of preventing further erosion of physician participation in the Medicare program, this legislation contains no spending reductions elsewhere to offset its considerable cost. It would require that the Senate vote to waive its own budget rules, intended to protect taxpayers, and would represent a violation of “PAYGO” rules in the House as well. Perhaps more importantly, it serves as a deceptive measure to reduce the perceived cost of various plans for comprehensive health care overhaul

Earlier this month, one such piece of legislation introduced by Finance Committee Chairman Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) received a 10-year cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office of $829 billion. It achieved a score more than $200 billion lower than the $1.042 trillion plan drafted by the late Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in part by reducing physician reimbursements through Medicare. By engineering a $247 billion reversal of part of the Baucus bill in separate legislation, it is clear that some leaders in Congress had no intent of allowing those reductions to take effect.

If Congress seeks a “doc fix,” it should draft it into comprehensive health care reform legislation and allow it to be debated in proper context. Splitting higher reimbursements into a separate piece of legislation can only be an underhanded bait-and-switch attempt to deceive an American public that deserves better.

On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to oppose the so-called “Net Neutrality CRA” in the House, including the discharge petition, H.Res. 873, filed by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.). The discharge petition would force a vote on the disapproval resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to cancel the Restoring Internet Freedom Order.

The fix is in. A senior ranking official at the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, Nancy A. Johnson, has been charged with accepting bribes worth tens of thousands of dollars during a 2015 collective bargaining negotiation with Fiat Chrysler.

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and urge him or her to vote on the amendments that have been offered to the National Defense Authorization Act, H.R. 5515 (NDAA) in the manner prescribed for each amendment below. As is always the case, FreedomWorks reserves the right to key vote any amendment brought to the floor for a vote.

A coalition of conservative leaders on Wednesday released essential principles that must guide any potential path forward for Congress to repeal Obamacare. The group agreed on a set of principles that Congress must adopt in any health care legislation considered later this year or in the future.

Washington, DC- Today the House passed legislation to allow terminally ill patients to use experimental phase one drugs, FreedomWorks is proud to stand with thousands of patients across the country whose lives depend on the “Right to Try."

On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to vote YES on the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, S. 2155, introduced by Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho). The bill would provide targeted relief in the banking industry from onerous regulatory overreach into the financial sector created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, commonly known as “Dodd-Frank.” Having passed the Senate already, passage in the House would send the bill directly to President Trump’s desk to provide regulatory relief from this onerous law, affecting millions of Americans.

On behalf of FreedomWorks activists nationwide, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to vote YES on the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina, S. 204, introduced by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). This bill would allow terminally ill patients to have access to potentially life-saving drugs when no other alternatives exist. It would ensure Americans, currently hampered by the bureaucracy of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have the most fundamental right of all: to fight to save their own lives.